#psyker-class
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true, lowest damage but highest potential imo
or a targeting change like what they're trying to do for hammer
full charged attacks tho still do massive damage, especially to carapace
they need to buff damage against dregs
increase target cap
and then go from tehre
its a weird thing where its hard CC makes it weird to balance imo cuz it shouldn't horde clear as well as like a trauma or voidstrike
if you were guaranteed to fuck up 5 elites/specials if there are any in range (maybe with extra priority for disablers and then armor) it would be better
but it also shouldn't just be completely shit when more than 10 enemies show up
but it really should be more than 5
In all honesty I think 10 targets + it actually does damage to not flak and carapace
you pretty much can if you get the chain secondary blessing and jsut spam it
does warp absorption count towards force sword special or no?
and then 15 if not enough
yes
it counts
you have very little agency right now about what gets targeted beyond the first
they fixed it this patch to make warp absorption work on the illisi
if you have it out and generate warp then it applies
oh nice screw quiettude then
quietude generates more toughness per unit of time than warp absorption anyway
yeah, normally the high prio targets will be outside of the hordes, you can get rid of them easy
if not you can get rid of the hordes then the high prio
illi is good at being indiscriminate
until they make essence harvest stack instead of refresh it's close to pointless
with quietude as it is
smh confusing essence harvest with warp absorption
but yeah what I do typically if stuff is in hordes is just ult to knock down trash, then bb the specials still standing
lmao you right
yeah illisi is pretty good against mixed hordes as long as there aren't any ogryn enemies in em
can't believe people consider warp absorption at all
i never ever thought about it until the illisi came about
and then the special didn't work with it until the recent fix
warp absorption would be pretty strong in events where you have to move around and there's a constant stream of enemies, but I still prefer the comfiness of quietude
Warp absorption is kind of a "win more" feat
They nerfed psyker toughness regen like across the board from CBT to prelaunch
yeah I'd be comfortable with bringing warp absorption to lower difficulties
this is exactly the locution I considered using and decided against because tide community is design illiterate
Yeah it's just the least reliable in times when you actually need tough regen
You can't just take cover and recover
like the other 2 (assuming you BB behind a wall with essence)
yep
the only time it's functioning at a rate to compete with the other two is when you're winning handily and don't need regen at all
it's "being invisible but only when nobody is looking" tier defensive mechanic
lol
hey i'm starting new psyker character , which staff and melee is the best for newbie now ?
purgatus, the flamethrower staff, would probably be it, though it's the last staff you unlock
well then
you unlock antax early, that's your melee until 30, at which point you can start spending resources to put together a sword
the staves you just use in the order you unlock them pretty much immediately, purg is at 15 and you use that until 30
again at which point you spend resources on whatever you actually want
illisi and deimos force swords being pretty good, though I'm not sure at what level you unlock them at; the Slaughterer blessing is particularly good on them
of the available options when leveling antax + purg function the best at white rarity and it's not even really close
I'm assuming this is your first psyker (because you wouldn't be asking otherwise) and you don't have slaughterer for force sword banked already
yeah then you just antax only until level 15 pretty much, your staff won't really matter
still lately i've seen lot of psyker wielding gun that good as killing horde and only blow the elite head off
new meta for you guy ?
yeah shredder is very good rn
it's 50% memes and 50% pinning fire +blaze away interacting multiplicatively with warp unleashed
on shredder
that half is real
Depends, gun psykers are either amazing or trash
I personally wouldn’t be wasting ammo on a horde tho
that's another thing you probably want to wait to fuck with until you're 30 and have some plasteel and patience for hadron to waste
Gun psyker imo is the “I’ve fucked around long enough and I’m bored so let’s run gun”
It’s good because autopistol is good but
that's the meme half
I wouldn’t recommend it as like a first timer
I mean tbh the main thing you gotta learn is psykers innate shitty states besides stam regen
if you're not properly hashtag blessed you're more than likely trolling
The biggest problem is people see the illisi and psyker buffs, try to run psyker like the other classes and get shit on because psyker gets deleted in like 3 hits
well you can run it like the other classes as long as you avoid getting hit
people don't abuse the infinite dodges enough
Tbf the dodge distance is halved
can spam ijt anyway lmao[]
Rly? Feels like half kek
the distance doesn't really matter when you're dark soulsing
Speaking of plasteel to waste, I'm ready to burn some. I have an okayish Illisi with T3 Unstable and T3 Slaughter. Is it worth going for T4 for those? Or try to get a good autopistol with a T4 Pinning or Blaze away? I fully expect to get none of those. =/
not accounting for most psykers just being shit
i have spent 50k or more plasteel trying to get unstable 4
this is all i have to show for the plasteel spent
t4 slaughterer sure
Oh man. I know my luck. That means I'll never get it.
that's an extra 15% power from t3 to t4
Psykers used to be the most reliable randoms
i've been trying to get it for a month
Now not so much
checked melk every day
holy shit you are right lmao, you have to arc a fucking staff
This is what I'm running right now.
then see a random hitmarker as you blow the entire horde to shit
I Managed to get lucky with melk
Holy. That's nice. Melk hasn't had anything for my Psyker in two weeks except for a couple of Trauma staves with Surge
finally got around to trying purge staff, what blessings would you guys recommend? Im guessing the ones i got rolled arent great
warp nexus is best in slot, with warp flurry
terrifiyng barrage is worthless/pointless
it does
but good to know that one of the blessings is good
crit = 2 burn stacks on an enemy
ah ok
Question siblings, I know in the past staff secondaries didn't count as ranged kills for milk tasks. Is that the same? All staff secondaries?
fairly certain i've been getting scab/ranged contracts with them
they count
"GET I GET A BRAINBURST"
me: >no 🙂
get good
What's the best way to get new staffs? Buy from money store and upgrade, or wait for a gold to come to the weekly store?
Buy from store
Weekly is for blessing hunting for the most part
Getting an amazing weapon is just a lot of grinding and a lot of rng tho sadly no way around it
I see. Are the blessings single use or do you own a recipe forever once you have the pattern?
own the blessing but only on that weapon
other weapons that take the same perk you need to re-get
well that's something. I thought it was general to staffs, but I got blitz 3 for purge now by accdicent.
blitz?
It’s shared across account but also only transferable across same weapon family
all of our current staffs belong to different families, so they won't share blessings
^^
But hey if you get that meta pinning fire 4 on autopistol
Congrats you can use it for all classes
🎉
sorry flurry not blitz
Also, why is there +expereince on trinkets if you can't share gear among characters? Do the devs not like us?
cuz fuck you thats why
also its now locked ty come again
maybe you will enjoy your +15% curio chance and + dockets now

lol
This one seems like it's worth a go, it has higher damage than my current gold already
thats like perfect
Yeah it’s p good staff probably best stats you could roll given it’s a 344
What's good cloud?
thats burn
youre thinking of burn
cloud you want as high as possible
can we ban this guy
That’s my excuse
oh, barrage 2 :/ whelp
Huh, whelp
Oof
lmao
If you aren’t playing like a spastic are you truly playing psyker
lassic vet
Oh… dear…
I mean… replace run n gun with nexus and you’ll have best staff before the flurry fix XD
this is why I turn voice chat off lmao, I just blast music. also good taste
lol
didnt get it in the clip but i asked why he was gatekeeping me out of a dead game
and he lost his shit
doesnt want my "kind" of playear in the game 
Audio
i dont want his kind of player in the game
This sword was basically made to fight Ogryns... However I don't use it for that, I spent most of my time with the Illsi clearing trash mobs, Ragers and Mutants. Of both the perks, I'd guess the Unyielding damage bonus is the one to replace, right?
Lmao I just thought you were referring to how you played like you were having a seizure
I had a 5 wound laspistol zealot backseat the entire 20 minutes of a damnation run once
I have only had two people use voice chat. One was RPing and super helpful in Dec. The second one was last night, they just had an open mic on speakers and gave me ear-heresy.
He would lose his mind if u didn’t pick up the ammo he wanted u to pick up
just picked up a new sword from melk, the deflector 3 one is better right?
i'd replace carapace because carapace is pretty sparse in game, and you BB carapace targets anway
4*
and illisi does shit carapace dmg anyway, so a bonus aint gonna help it
isnt he a zealot tho
yee that was a zealot
there's not a game in my life i'd try that hard in lmao
imma chill with the three and just surge spam and m1 when the horde takes us
SMH
my bad
zealots can have the same players as vets, they tend to attract the same crowd
damage btw 
my dad is john fatshark and hes going to ban you for your mistake
I think I like the stamina, I'm gonna try for crit. ditch the run'n'gun like you say.
@ember hornet pls brain burst more and no use quicken thx
but yeah, @vagrant frigate It's always funny when people forget this is a fuckin game and its meant for fun. its not a dick so don't take it so hard
Deflector is my favorite perk on these swords, it's gotten me out of a lot of tight situations against ranged mobs
lol yeah i meet some fun people
Deflector + your push ability makes you feel like a Jedi, more than most star wars games do lol
Implying I'm bad enough to not use BB smh
if i wanted to use brainburst i wouldnt play gun psyker
Actually I just realized
if im out of ammo i am melee psyker
worth ripping deflector off and pairing it with unstable power on the higher dmg sword?
im not bbing anything
gun psyker puts in work without fuckin bb
its not required to do well
only reason I do is to keep stacks up
I just don’t respond typically
extra damage with warp battery, if I Cant then o well
the most fun thing is to respond
i got kinda pissed that time but usually i just mess with them more
Whelp, I think it's better than what I had before.
cuz im tryna watch yt and chill
i've had a player tell me to BB gunners for whatever reason even when I was melee-locking shooters
while going schizo mode
I mean
carapace damage is awful on purga
terrifying barrage is useless on anything
u should probably drop carapace
these people not joining my high intensity hunting grounds 
Idk at one point the whole thing was psyker BB bad don’t use BB EVER
Idk when the fuck it 180’ed to BB the gunner wtf are you doing
Yes clearly
And yeah it was def an extreme
I remember saying there were genuine use cases and people hard disagreed with me
So clearly I was the pro player this whole time

unironically yes
Always have been derpy
it takes like 2 braincells to realise the utility and strength of it
just because it doesnt 1 shot literally anything doesnt mean its bad
But yeah obviously the don’t use BB ever was an extreme but i find it funny how the sentiment just 180’ed to “holy shit why aren’t you BB’ing gunners immediately”
i have never once thought in my life it was bad
Dumbasses were complaining it can’t one shot ragers therefore bad
Oh I got Flak!
even if you dont take warp battery the damage is still fine on 4 warp charges
I mean hey I want it to one shot hounds and bursters without jumping through 6 warp charges + warp unleashed hoops
But
Yeah
why hounds got so much HP
it feels so disproportionate to the enemy
If only their jank as hitboxes made it easier to deal in melee
Not even hitboxes their movement as well
I can reliably hit them out of the air with melee
you'd kill then too easily if they didn't have so much hp
yeah when my push into melee attack works they die
i can 1 shot bursters
Like I never understood the complainers about bb not realising that simply by existing a psyker, you were already anti specials, anti crusher and anti bullshit gunner/ snipers
Like I spray em with auto pistol and they fucking rocket past me
pushing them is very unreliable
oh nvm i misread
fuck, I was certain I killed every hound in the hab twice last night. I did nothing but taze 5 hounds at a time with my surge staff
attacking them is more reliable because the hitboxes linger
also yeah usually bursters go down in one unless i have like 0 warp charges
Surge staff ain’t good on hunting grounds
It takes like
3 charges to kill a poxhound
tbf, bb used to actually be a lot worse
And you can only stun 5 of em at a time
they have 300 hp
oh no, killing is for others, I just freeze them
your team will love u for it tho
run purg and stare down the hounds for half an hour before it dies
You aren’t full charging mind you
Since u just turn them into free targets
BB was fine before the damage buff and WU buff
use shredder for dogs
To stunlock that many pox pups you are like half charging
ill see if i have clip of me shredding dogs
even as just an anti-bulwark tool
they actually were super appretiative. We were gonna be screwed any other way
The main problem is that people were comparing it to every other class
But it’s a utility tool
people comparing BB to guns
if by fine you mean we all had more than 0 uses for it, sure
but it was clearly weaker than it should've been
I mean it does fucking suck when I need 2 BB to kill a hound and there’s like 3 hounds
i mean we still have our ranged and melee weapons for those purposes
it's an aim-assist weapon that pierces armour and shields
what more do you want from it?
For it to not take literal years to kill one target I guess
at Malice it one shots most things
i think just 4?
oh no mutants which take 3x melee damage and are staggered after the end of their charge?
bulwarks being 3 was annoying
they weren't known for it, but it's not like melee is terrible for them
you could three-shot mutants with obscurus heavy-headshots or two-shot them with a +maniac bodyshot special force sword with WU
I just used a knife with high mobility for spriting, then put it back.
is antax that good on psyker? I thought it was only insane on zealot
its good on everything
It’s decent on psyker because u can infinitely push attack if u wanted to
It just didn’t truly feel good, cuz it would take you forever to kill like one crusher etc etc
You had the stamina regen to play hyper safe
melees also take long to kill crushers
And have all the benefits of warp stacks and antax shittery
it didn't really justify how long and expensive it was to use it
oh true i didnt think about antax damage plus warp charges
I mean
i mean if you had made it free i still wouldn't use it all the time back then
That’s cuz they listened to the whiners in the CBT
Psyker BB used to one shot maulers
yes, because the peril cost wasn't the issue about brain burst
So yeah
Knife on psyker was also kinda nuts
since you can cast from 97% anyways
its clunkiness is a part of it
Eh idk why we are getting into BB debate but
Just demolished everything except crushers and maulers
it had things holding it back that didn't need to be there because it wasn't that strong to begin with
that's what i mean by weaker than it should be
Psyker BB was only good for gunners snipers and bombers at that point
Flamers took 2
even as just an anti-bulwark tool, it's extremely powerful
Hounds and bursters took 2
shredder is anti bulwark
Anti bulwarks and carapace
kek
was this worth my time investing or should i look for another staff?
And so on so forth
shredder is anti crusher
i mean i run surge so anti bulwark is already covered anyways
I thought only on zealot tho
you want higher burn
my psyker 1shots em
crit damage is bad on every weapon
Shredder sucks against crusher unless you zealot wym
no it doesnt
you want crit rate
in response to this
horrific, excuse me while i cry
that's a shame that role is covered by your ranged then
take crit rate
Flayer doesn’t really count if that’s what being factored in tho
what would i look for?
pinning fire buffs the damage of brainburst, so when your lvl 25 feat of brainburst on hit procs it does 4700 dmg if you pop ult beforehand
i mean it's a good thing that you have a weapon that supersedes a weapon that's inferior for that particular purpose, no?
ult then 1shot crushers
Oooh fair
of course ranged/melee weapons would be better than a grenade-slot weapon for something
nerf that shit
The problem with crit is that let’s say your weapon does 100 damage and when you crit it does 10% extra, so 110 total… +10% crit damage is literally 10% of the 10% so you now do 111 damage total
Except no respite in this case
i only play gun psyker so i have the timing of the 15 second cooldown pretty well mastered
yes that's a good thing for the surge staff that it can do that
but that does mean BB wasn't that useful for the build
they should nuke shredder
why the fuck do they do it like that
Fatshark
that's a shame that your selection of ranged/melee weapons altered the viability of BB
¯_(ツ)_/¯
lol
I don’t wanna rain on parades but Shredder needs some adjustment
It’s like, modifier god at the moment
No it’s universally agreed

i absolutely want to rain on all parades
Nerf that fucking blessing
Pinning fire and blaze away together
Gotta buff shredder tho
Wowee
It’s like
i havent used auto pistol yet but sometimes i wonder if i should be lol
The blessing system is a disaster
You ever played with Darcy on autopistol
The two weapons that come to mind are hsword and shredder
i mean it was a shame that it turned a part of our kit a lot less useful yes. makes the class really interesting to play
now it's a lot more useful and more fun
Both are fucking complete trash when they are grey
Man’s doing 600k damage+ if u let them
me
But slap some meta blessings on em and suddenly they melt
very fun to hold down LMB and have no other mechanical engagement beyond that
Except they do it on a vet, they’re both invincible to range at the same time and still doing more damage than max warp stacks
listen i played psyker for a really long time. I was not arguing that psyker was weak
i'm arguing that bb was in fact weaker than it should be
that is all
I know'
well vet shredder is way more powerful
I'm arguing that BB should be weaker
We’ve all played psyker for a long time
if you haven't been listening at all
Ye
Except some people
I've never talked about anything else but BB in my sentences
you are insane if you think shredder + psyker is better than shredder + vet
Some people came in a few months ago and then try to argue with me
THE SUPERIOR PSYKER
i think it was fine pre-warp unleashed buff
SMH smh
yes
no vet is insanely op with shredder
Nah no one would think that lmao
psyker is just more fun
well not pre-warp unleashed
Vet is braindead
Psyker is more fun
I think it was fine before the damage buff to BB
Psyker is more versatile it’s got the CC shout and anti armor in BB
A lot more dimensions to the gameplay
idk you were talking about surge. i thought you were implying bb being useless in the build is fine because surge being able to deal with bulwarks still means the class is usable
I seent it
I fucking cry inside when my autopistol vet runs into like 4 crushers and 2 bulwarks
I was being sarcastic
Ayyy
no shit your ranged/melee weapons will alter the function of your grenade in your build
ill find the clip of me killiung like 3 crushers instantly
and BB is still useful in that case
and BB was still useful for catching enemies that were running around
Other weapon of silliness atm is fire shotgun
I love this things normal fire but the special fire is just
bombers and trappers in particular
I need no respite
did they nerf kinetic barrage cast rate??
Don't have it yet so my shotty feels meh
i thought they fixed the wallbang lol
Yeah, it literally lets me one tap ragers if ANYTHING staggers them
They didn’t fix shit
This was right after patch
No
it makes the kit feel so empty when you're just using surge for most ranged things
It's a lot more fun using surge for certain groups of shooters and BB for other enemies like bulwarks
rather than surge for gunners, surge for bulwarks, surge for crushers, etc
i think 2 bb for bulwarks is a pretty healthy breakpoint
why does it feel like my BB cast time is barely enhanced anymore when i pop my ability
wallhack + wallbang + godmode + constant healing
I mean, that's just a consequence of the ranged weapon, not BB itself
vets actually playing with legal cheats
and surge still has range issues
and of course the ranged weapon should supersede the grenade slot weapon?
Maybe it's a bug
now that I know purge will stop dogs, I dunno what ht point of it is
once again, I feel like people are treating BB as if it's supposed to stand on the same level as your melee and ranged weapons
i dont really understand what you're arguing for or against and to whom
i use bb when i see a crusher, or a sniper, or a bomber
I feel like it being mixed into gameplay more is just more enjoyable
since our viewpoints won't meet together, I'll just say that BB should be reverted before the WU change and damage buff
i liked it ever since it 2 shot bulwarks
@olive ember @feral verge @forest coral
I only use staff special. Melee, staff lmb/rmb and BB are crutches for bad players with bad game sense
I also run no feats, cuz that's a crutch for bad gameplay too
^
He explode
nerf warp unleashed to only affect warp stuff no muggle weapons allowed
I mean i just want more dynamic gameplay
if bb can function as a 3rd weapon while still letting your other slots be useful, i don't see why we need to shackle ourselves to keeping it at the level of a typical video game grenade slot
it doesn't really render your ranged weapon obsolete at the moment anyways
emperor damn it man, I finally get my damnation dreyko for my penance and my internet cuts out near the arena

and my point was that it was still useful for catching bombers from afar, targeting trappers inside a horde, etc.
it was, and that was lame
doesn't take away from the fact that you were still using it
theyd have to buff the other grenade slots for other classes then probably
(they kicked me from the game before the boss fight)
@feral verge @forest coral @olive ember crusher go boop
I'm fine with the grenade slot weapon being stronger for psyker
"useful" and "weaker than it should be" actually aren't mutually exclusive. i actually don't disagree that it had some use
so we actually agree on that part
I don't care about discrepancies between design between different classes
turn up volume
Why they kick u
something can perform a useful role and still be gimped for no reason
I straight up disagree that it's "weaker than it should be"
racist or smth idk
Why they kick lol
it just wasn't fun imo
I want it to be strong enough that i have to carefully choose between my options, rather than only the times where it's extremely obvious where only it would work
if we're discussing the inconsistencies within the class in regards to warp charges and whatnot, then I would agree that BB should be altered to be more of an often-used weapon
but it is my strong opinion that it was extremely useful even before the damage buffs and warp unleashed changes
it's never going to be fun
it's an aim assist weapon
wow I get to hold LMB and have no mechanical engagement with it
that's never going to be fun
i find it fun to alternate between surge and bb
or whatever staff and BB really
except maybe void i guess. i don't really use that weapon
make it a skill check minigame that pops up, if you succeed you instant pop them, if not, twice as long

it is indeed fun to pick the right tool for the right situation
but changing the properties of BB isn't going to add any new dimensionality without adding some new feature
its meme 🙃
and I maintain that it was still often used before the damage/WU buffs
I straight up do think that you just forget about the times where you used BB
since it's not like BB is the most engaging weapon ever
i mean on surge it's actually sometimes an important decision between damage or stunning 5 targets
before it was just, idk who cares it doesn't matter cause it won't hurt. Just using bb for stuff where surge couldn't actually reach
ehhhhhhhhh
i mean if you value stuns more than damage
that's on you
or surgical targeting
sometimes using surge twice would kill more gunners than using BB on every individual gunner
i have to actually plan around that
or think about wherher the enemies have been hit already
maybe they're low and i should just surge
maybe i should just bb the bulwark twice and get it out of the way instead
the lower damage also gave you an incentive to synergize with other weapons
"instead of having to BB this bulwark three times, I could BB -> obscurus light combo -> obscurus heavy/light special to kill the bulwark"
now it's just BB the bulwark two times
straight up neglecting the stun of BB
Eh the stun in CBT was cooler
It staggered then on start of cast all the way through
They changed it so it doesn’t do that anymore
you can still stun certain enemies with RMB -> LMB immediately
still exists
Back when lmb also did it
Yeah the fact that we don't need bulwark combos anymore is kinda a loss
BB also staggering gunners midway or with the RMB->LMB
being able to run and sprint-slide with BB while casting
actually you know what bb nerf i would be pretty cool with
making it so BB on bulwarks only kills in 2 with warp unleashed and high peril
so you can still do it but not all of the time
if they get close and you're not at high peril then the combo would make sense
encourage the use of other weapons to make up for the BB's lack of damage
take advantage of its stagger
or teammates taking advantage of the stagger
e.g., when you hit a bulwark
teammates do take advantage of the stagger as it is
straight up on-demand staggers against bulwark is strong
i think its faster to bb then poke with deimos
yeah I usually BB -> illisi special if I can
especially when you don't have the luxury of dealing with bulwarks with a mixed horde unless you bring a specific ranged weapon (plasmagun, bolter) or melee (idk)
or press f (if the game's jank actually lets it work)
maybe with 4 warp charges or more, though I'm not often at max charges to test it
god i swear psyker f push is the second buggiest thing in the game
yeah that shit not working every time
sometimes i use it and it pushes stuff towards me
bb doesnt stagger bulwarks sometimes
usually when their shield gets hit
or they're being staggered by the reaper behind them
im pretty sure when enemies aggro from far away and are doing their pathing to their target they just shrug off all stagger
that too it seems
especially noticeable with bursters
that's the one enemy that I recall with that happening
ive seen surge do absolutely nothing to them many times
point blank ragers just ignore it and run through u to get to your teammate
if anyone wants to know what i think the buggiest thing in the game is...
i do
stagger/stun is really weird in general
or when ragers are running to your teammates and u try to left click purg them it does nothing until they stop in front of their target then it magically starts staggering them again
damn actually jailed
a +maniac illisi heavy-special headshot -> some other melee attack is enough to two-shot them
going into hi int damnation with all psyker squad, wish us luck lol
or with max slaughterer stacks, just one-shot them with a heavy-special headshot
no, i refuse to wish you luck
i think hi int is pretty chill now after experiencing hi int shock troops
its fun with a good team
i like killing specialists
I like bacon
one-shotting flamers
one thing i could think it being would be the equivalent of a force choke or force stasis
not much a fan of bacon
you stop an enemy from moving and attacking to set up an attack for someone else
thats fine i'm nota fan either, I'm a chicken
imagine even
a feat that changes the combat ability into a mass freeze that increases peril
how am I to save myself when I activate perils of the warp 😔

me when i switch weapon to attack after bb and accidentally fire the staff
warp take me
i think it could be something similar to the flashbang from zealot
except bloody instant
I hate it when you're on BB and try to swap to staff or melee
And your input gets eaten
same
jesus that tilts me so much
i have a horde in front of me and keep starting bb over and over like my psyker has warp-induced brain damage
muscle memory of swap to melee -> LMB/RMB and that just keeps casting BB over and over again
I swapped my melee key to tilde
another possibility would be to turn psykinetic freeze into a hold ability that can freeze a single enemy for a prolonged time at the cost of the skills aoe
Idk if it's like this anymore, but I remember during the beta the swap to BB would get eaten sometimes.
It made me rebind bb to mouse scroll
so you tap the skill and freeze hordes, or hold it for a bit kinda like bb and stun a reaper
i think if you're changing the combat ability that much, at that point they'd just make it a new subclass
the problem with a new subclass is that they have to try to make new feats for it while the current ones dont even have good balance
i bet it's buggy as hell
no way they do anything that involves manipulating enemy movement and it isn't a buggy mess
bet it just doesn't work sometimes
any psyker picking quicken or the funny fire is basically shafting their ability to save the team from crushers and elites and removing up to 24% damage from the brain burst and every other attack
cerebral lacerations is basically a boss feat and many matches players dont even find bosses or have people much better equipped to fight one
mind in motion shares its space with nigh-infinite blocking and ranged toughness dr
I don't think our last column is that horribly designed
but there's definitely a lot of issues with those other feats yeah
mind in motion lol
funny fire is good
god forbid if they made a new subclass and went "all the feats have to be different"
noooo quietude :((
vermintide 2 has a lot of subclasses
and those feats were terribly balanced too so you're not wrong
alternatively they could increase the amount of feats per level
3 is a bit of an arbitrary number
could even make each level tackle a specific part of the class
5, for example, is always toughness and 30 is always the ult
this could apply to the rest
they do do that im pretty sure
sometimes
there is a theme
idk if increasing the feats per level does anything
itd be an even bigger nightmare to balance
vets 10 is long range damage, faster reload or grenade refund
more feats per level would just be more shit they can't be bothered to balance
mind in motion added to every column
yeah, it all kinda hangs itself on fatshark being able to balance the game
which if vt2 is any proof...
finally got an illi that I was happy to upgrade. rerolled block efficiency and will eventually rebless shred...
I'll have to see how bad the warp resistance is 🤣
Low warp resist is good
oh, I thought higher was better on that?
I've only recently started doing 5's on the reg and looking at gear
Warp unleashed + unstable power boost smg at high peril
I thought we wanted everything as close to 80 as possible
Low warp resist lets you reach higher peril quickly
ah, gotcha, that makes sense
Lol, it never gets old. 😛
To instantly reach high peril
That's what 41% peril resist looks like
It's nonironically amazing
with the way peril works it also gives the player little benefit to having warp resist on the sword
Yea low peril resist for FS actually desired
that makes sense, I need to relook at my feats
if youre just below critical peril, you can use bb and fs specials
so if I run quietitude and unleashed does a standard setup look like 3 1 1 3 2 2? or am I way off?
I try to be 80% or higher
so an attack that gives you idfk 30% peril can be used at 96% peril because you started the input at 96% peril
Yeah I try and stay below 50 🤣 I am trying to work on managing it better for the perks
You'll learn
and also its a good thing because players shouldnt get "oops, your peril has overflown by 1%, explode now"
Replace shred with unstable power on that sword
I can hold my own in 4s, but I tend to be the anchor in 5s because I can't take a hit. but i love psyker so I want to play it better
Unstable power t4 will grant you 20% more power at 80% peril
I'll try and fine one to earn the blessing
It stacks 4x
dodge the hits 
yeah. My problem is I eventually end up dodging too early and jump
rebind dodge away from jump 
that would make sense... lol
hrm
what do you bind it too? or rebind jump off of space maybe...
I have alt for jump, space for dodge
actually jump on x makes sense...
yeah alt would work too
damn I guess I should spend more time in here, lol
i have it bound to spacebar along with dodge, thats why i say its a bad idea 
i dislike the game making you jump if you mash space
Accidental jumps when dodging is horrible
yeah that's what fucks me up most of the time
Also nice to be able to just press space then ctrl from neutral to do a big back slide
Especially for poxbursters
I have crouch bound to a side button on my mouse, works really well
that and the weapon specials are there
alright well let's try this new illi out and the new key bindings. Probably going to forget how to climb in game 🤣
Mouse 4 wep special, mouse 5 tagging
middle mouse to tag for me
how is psyker after the new peril changes? I heard before that it was pretty lacking on high difficulty
thats good
I only play damnation
yeah it does feel really good now, even with me still learning the finer points of play
Psykers are eating very good right now
so ragers always fuck me in damnation, what's the trick? I can never seem to get away and I melt to them.
I guess if I'm that close to them I already fucked up?
Push them with force sword
And use force sword special on them
It stuns them
They freeze in place when you use it
i feel like i do that to one but then the other two still hit me in the animation
F
i might finally make a psyker after new changes. everywhere i looked previously was just people bitching that psyker was underwhelming past malice
unless you using illisi then just 2 back slides to charge and H1
once i learned all the special spawns on each map i got a lot more confident with psyker
it's pretty rough to use the deimos/obscurus special on ragers
at least on deimos, you can just use the normal attacks
on illisi, the special staggers them and you should be able to chain light-specials repeatedly on them without getting hit
I only use light special with Deimos on ragers
Because the animation doesn't get stuck for as long
If you spam lmb during/after
It's pretty quick
But you have to be careful when you do it
Cuz you're still stuck for .3 seconds or whatever
illisi is pretty brainless for ragers since you only need to spam the special, so I like it for that
l1/h2 while back dodging on deimos
something to keep in mind is that rager combos ignore your dodge state and won't have their tracking broken by dodge, so you'll need to really skirt outside of their attack hitbox
got the rending uncanny strike 4 on illisi, thanks melk
dudes hookin me up this week, gave me slaughter 4 the other day too
does new psyker have decent carry potential like vet? I want to try it but its hard to give up that free 1 many army capability with vet because i queue a lot of pub higher difficulty so im not very reliant on the team more just the class being broken. Psyker interests me with how it works but i would be miserable playing pubs if i didnt have the potential to carry my teammates and continuously get loss screens or be forced to lfg
its good for crushers atleast
special in osb or deimos gives 5 stacks before the pop
Psyker can carry plenty, but they have to try harder/play sweatier on clutch moments
So one of my loadouts whenever I click to it or off it my game crashes...anyone had that? any resolution?
yeah i messed around with it in the test room, seems fake for anything you'd want to rend
it's pretty good for that because BB deals with bulwarks, the Illisi is a much more mobile power sword, and the CC from staffs can buy time while killing enemies
my other one has the slaughter 4 and shred 3 which is working well enough for me rn
Psyker also has a much shorter stamina regeneration delay of 0.5 seconds compared to 1.25 seconds of Veteran
ya know, i noticed that and thought it was a bug
beyond our low max stamina that can be patched up by a stamina curio or the Kinetic Deflection feat, we have very little downtime in safety
we're a bit squishier if you just look at our base HP and toughness, but I do think we have some pretty good toughness regen feats to avoid getting peeled by ranged, and you should be safe in melee as long as you're pushing/dodging properly
Am I the only one using the deimos force sword? This thing completely replaces the Obscurus
learn to hide behind cover, it matters a lot, and learn the "theres a guy behind you" sound, really important for any player but especially for psyker
Lots of us use it to dunk on mutants.
Deimos fucks
I dunk everything with it - its nuts
or abuse the force sword's infinite dodges and completely forgo cover
Chad Deimos enjoyers
Peep this
This is the story of a Force Sword which was rejected even before arriving. However, this shiny blade proved us all wrong with the mighty speed of warp and a jab that hits like a truck.
The other force sword is literally the power sword so I care less.
bit phallic, the Deimos, but decent enough...I dont like the downward strike pattern
deimos is a dragon dildo
You can 1 shot headshot charging muties with the 2nd heavy attack from Deimos
As this video demonstrates
Made by @near wyvern
It's my favorite thing in this game. I love hunting muties
most peeps passed over it and fawned over the Illi which in itself is nuts.
That mutant killing poke tho
illisi can nuke muties too
infinite dodge and it obliterates anything you charge heavy
Can we ban this guy
pretty decently actually
i wish they would balance the game a bit better and tune up the other classes or tune down vet. im going to force myself to try psyker because i really like how the staves look but i figure ill be miserable for the first 40+ hours because its higher skill ceiling than pick bolter and instantly kill all specials within a 5 mile radius. on the bright side psyker definitely looks a lot more interesting gameplay wise than vet which will be fresh and probably get me back into the game for another long grind period. anything I should know about psyker mechanics before i suffer in pubs on a level 1?
🤔
can't tell if this is a copypasta or not
Playing psyker will make you better at the game overall
It has the highest skill ceiling imo
fun
Play zealot will make you better at the game overall imo
then you'll be a better psyker
this is a good video, the trauma staff isnt, but the rest is
Forces you to learn good positioning, game sense and to master melee combat
lmao zealot does not make you better at game
I agree
With respect to brainburst, you must initiate the LMB cast at 97% or below, or you will explode upon finishing your cast. For RMB, you must left-click at 97% or below. The peril% that you see hides some decimal values, so you might still explode at 97%, so I recommend starting your cast at 96% or below
zealot is the "haha i have toughness regen for days and on demand" class
then again
so is vet
I feel like pysker is the most versatile character.
I play worse on zealot because it's piss easy
just play psyker
well, same goes for psyker
I don't have to try
🤔
You dont play at diff5 if you think a zealot is easy
well yes
Zealot is brain off mode for me
I only play hi5
same
And zealot is dumb easy
recon lasgun go brrr
psyker felt fine to me before the quelling buffs with respect to toughness regen
Compared to what I'm used to as a psyker main
esp with the pre-buff trauma staff
I was fine with it but eh
tips for getting past sedition?
easier for everyone so i won't complain
I use thammer
fucking thammer
Psyker is def harder no disagree there
Do more damage, take less damage
You're welcome
also what does the psyker's arsenal look like? vet was pretty boring with 1 melee weapon choice and 2 viable guns
simply pass the vibe check
charged hammer should have much more aoe. 😦
no joke tho
With this new force sowrd I dont have to worry about position anymore I just square up now its glorious
All the staves are good, but the surge staff (lightning) is a noobtrap imo
I quickplay into damnation
I don't realize its hi int or wte until like
halfway through the mission
The force sword are nice
surge staff can carry pub noobs
well, it's only a noobtrap if you just spam the surge staff and don't swap to melee
otherwise the staff is fine
Hi int seems to show itself when there's an ogryn around every corner.
holy shit, the illi is so good, i love that it doesn't do the animation lock with the warp activated
pick anything that isn't the recon las and the devils claw and you are good
psyker can use whatever ranged you like now tbh
when you see ppl spamming surge on trash horde.. thats the trap
thats what i was wondering. are staves more of a support weapon that you continuously swap out with melee on psyker to keep effects like freeze up?
nah I do that to assert dominance on the plebian who has to melee the horde for me
locking down a strike team for your braindead team mates makes the game a lot easier
shush do you want our sword to get nerfed
depends on the staff; surge certainly fits that description
then we will have to crawl like the filthy vets
The best psykers are always swapping imo. From bb, to staff, to melee ect.
using the fucking antax
Purgatus is just Flamer's little brother, so it's quite good
Voidstrike is ranged hordeclear with some stagger
Trauma is basically vet's nade but it's infinite
thats a lie the best psykers are braindamaged and just use melee
and only melee
cuz we can't be fucked
You can use a staff to stagger/stun ane enemy then BB him, or use melee special on him
alright, I keep seeing antax, what is that?
psword still gets that nice blessing.
All sorts of combos for differing situations
Mk 5 Antax Combat Axe
Psyker is the most versatile class imo
roger
Yeah I use the staff to stagger 4+ nerds then force sword assassinate the special in the group
its fantastic
hey, is this sword worth investing in? What are the dump stats please for the force sword.
mobility and warp res
my biggest concern with playing psyker was brainburst / warp charge mechanic, after seeing other people play psyker it looked kind of clunky
Warp resistance is the dump stat
just warp res
I like high mobility
war resistance is the main dump stat, mobility can dump too tho i like it personally.
warp res only.. mobility is great.
it is
treat it as utility
Even if the returns aren't that great
Especially on deimos
but don't use it like a primary source of dmg
it's a bit clunky since that's part of its design
you really shouldn't be using BB all the time
at whihc point its like
so keeping warp charges is up is more of just a bonus rather than a necessity, just bb for killing weaker elites?
eh i mean i've had games where the team just gets utterly supressed
pick this up in the meantime till you find one with dumped warp res
at that point you kinda just BB
with the right build warp charges shouldn't be much of an issue but for the most part yes imo
unless you are specifically going for some breakpoints
psykers have feats to generate warp charges basically passively
I got more ordo docs still
and most people just run them instead of having to BB a random ass enemy every 25 seconds
thats good. the whole bb mechanic is kind of what turned me away from psyker because its so clunky for the pace that darktide plays at
not t4 slaughterer and it's deflector; throw it away
yeah, our ranged and melee weapons are good enough to usually avoid using BB
unless you run purg which has range issues
fuck you my t4 slaughterer is on my obscures
or just dodge-slide and abuse the infinite dodges of our force swords
it's only clunky if your build is stupid tbh
infinite dodges means that there's no penalty for dodge-sliding anymore
either you're getting charges from sources other than BB or you're using kinetic barrage to make BB not clunky
you can also run and slide with BB while casting
same with all staffs except voidstrike
youre gonna end up replacing your obsc sword anyway..
IN TO THE TRASH IT GOES
based crafting system strikes again
This is what you get for trashing deimos
what are you spending plasteel on obscurus for
Where's the low warp resist
prob farming blessings
I also have this so yeah
im farming blessings at this point
prob should be goin for auto pistol pinning fire 4 tho
when my best auto pistol is on my psyker
I just had pinning 4 pop up in melk on my zealot after two months of waiting.
can you afford it kek
Came up yesterday and already got it.
nice nice
i got pinning fire 3 today on my zealot
fucking got rid of that pistol so quick
so i could slap pinning fire on my psyker kek
well also cuz that pistol was trash
but yeah both of my pistols got pinning fire now and its great
until they nerf pinning fire
surprised they haven't yet. I was rocking it months ago on my vet and it was p fun.
fuck I almost forgot to swap out the shitty deimos on my purge build
thank fuck for that
You're unworthy of that drip
You can't wear it until you learn to love Deimos
Alright. is it time to gamble at brunts for more Trauma staves or Deimos swords?
Complete with the dunce top
use neither duh
Deimos

If I were forced to choose for whatever reason, I'd rather have an amazing melee over an amazing staff
